Introduction The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone against direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of nine characteristics and requires public authorities to advance equality for people with these protected characteristics. One of the characteristics is ‘sex’ (not gender) and another is ‘gender reassignment’. The protected characteristic of sex refers to men
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USA Powerlifting has a clear and fair policy on transgender participation in competition. Sex matters in sport. Not gender identity. This is a great of example of how this can be done. Thank you USAPL for standing up for fairness. Performance enhancing drugs like Testosterone are banned for ALL competitors.
Read moreREPORT: Giving a voice to silenced women. In 2018 we published our own report documenting the concerns about sex self-ID and GRA reform held by professionals and service users in the women’s sector. REPORT: Giving a voice to silenced women. Transgender Prisoner Study In
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Read moreHelp Us Raise Money For Our Campaign Funds Thank you to Charlotte who ran a half-marathon in the Thames Meander on 3rd November raising an incredible £1,820 in sponsorship for Fair Play For Women. If you have a good idea about how to raise money for us, please get in
Read moreClick on links for PDF versions ready to view, download or print FACTSHEET: UK Equality law and the single-sex exemptions FACTSHEET: A woman’s legal right to seek refuge in a biologically female-only space Step-by-Step guide to reform of the Gender Recognition Act
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Campaign progress in brief: Current prison policy allows male-born transgender inmates to request transfer to a women’s prison. Legal or medical transition is not required for permission to transfer meaning that legally male prisoners complete with a penis are currently living alongside female inmates. Fair Play For Women is leading
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The Fair Play For Women sports campaign aims to raise public awareness of the impact of trans inclusion on the safety and fairness of female sports, both at the elite and grassroots level. This is a controversial and sensitive topic often clouded by emotion and false information that urgently needs
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Introducing our spokeswoman, Dr Nicola Williams Dr Nicola Williams is a research scientist specialising in human biology and has held a number of senior scientific positions within the pharmaceutical industry. She is now dedicated to her full-time volunteer role as a writer and speaker on reform of the Gender Recognition
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A BBC journalist has recently written an article in which he interviews two transgender athletes; Hannah Mouncey and Rachel McKinnon. Both athletes justify their inclusion in female sports based on their human rights. We thought it would be useful therefore to look at sport and human rights in a little more
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The rights of male-born transwomen to be included in female spaces clash head on with the sex-based rights of females to exclude males for reasons of privacy, safety and fairness. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the arena of elite sporting competition. Can it ever be fair for someone
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A handy myth-buster copied with kind permission from transfacts.com MYTH: Transwomen have surgery to transition. REALITY: 80-95% of males who identify as transgender keep their penis. Source: Evidence given by GIRES to MPs at the Women and Equalities Select Committee’s transgender inquiry in 2015. MYTH: Transwomen in the UK
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